Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a thick carpet of dead leaves and seedling trees. There was practically no earth visible, and certainly no grass or flowers. Up to a height of ten feet or so, a dense undergrowth of young trees and palms, but out of this wavy green sea of undergrowth a myriad tree trunks rose straight upward ... for 150 feet before they burgeoned into a solid canopy of green which almost entirely shut...
...operated was still all of a piece, held together by principles of law & order and morality. By the time Kafka came on the scene, early in the 20th century, the frame itself was split. The rules and principles of Dostoevsky's day had been shattered into a myriad of questions and conundrums to which only saints or heroes could find the effective answer. For the man-in-the-street, life was getting to be like an endless series of nightmare income-tax forms on which he was obliged to make out honest returns although he couldn't understand...
...seeking to apply the broad and all-inclusive definition of 'sacrilegious' given by the New York courts, the censor is set adrift upon a boundless sea amid a myriad of conflicting currents of religious views, with no charts but those provided by the most vocal and powerful orthodoxies. New York cannot vest such unlimited restraining control over motion pictures in a censor...
...Secretary of Commerce under Harding and Coolidge and of the not unimportant but less dramatic undertakings in his four years as President. It is, as the author admits, "a text composed mostly of grim economics"-postwar reconstruction, reclamation, foreign loans, disarmament negotiations, labor relations, child welfare and a myriad of other projects of whose origins and achievements the ex-President writes with stolid earnestness. But the book has its sprightly surprises and rewarding glimpses of men and problems as Herbert Hoover saw them...
...Edward Cumming, is a first-person narrative which is well-paced and smooth throughout, with character and plot development fully integrated. The subject is a trite one--the love affair of a schoolboy and an older woman--and there are no original embellishments to distinguish this story from myriad other chronicles of the Modern South. But as an exercise in getting a series of messy situations and emotions down on paper with maximum clarity, the story is both skilful and fun to read...